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Latest blog posts

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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 509: I forgot to say…

  Post 509: I forgot to say… How rude of me not to mention my appetite in the last few days, it’s staggering, I’m a food hoover all of a sudden. The sudden and wild ride I’m now on with eating everything in sight was pushed t...

  Mr U 10 minutes ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Another Birthday

  January 4 2021 Kilimanjaro 5895 metres above sea level Twenty years ago this morning I stood gasping but deliriously happy at the top of this mountain. So I’m raising a glass to the next twenty and bugger Cancer!

  Beesuit 13 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Coping with Treatment

  January 3 2021 I was going to put a 2019 review up next but talking to somebody on the Macmillan forum https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer_types/head-neck-cancer-forum I think I’ll just put a few words up about treatment in general and ho...

  Beesuit 13 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Happy New Year 2021

  January 2 2021 It just occurred to me that I haven’t posted here for months so the start of a new year seems to be a propitious time. Time to reflect and the mirror for these reflections is deep this year. Not a year to simply reflect on my rec...

  Beesuit 13 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Surviving Covid-19

  May 3 2020 Well we are still here. Matt Hancock the government’s poster boy Time I put some more work into this blog. I have been terribly lazy and not visited here for some weeks so I should get off my backside…or rather on it&hell...

  Beesuit 14 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  And Now For Something Completely Different.

  February 20 2020 Absolutely nothing to do with cancer I spotted this piece on the news today. It gave me so much joy and the hairs prickled on the back of my neck so I thought I’d share https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51553381 ...

  Beesuit 14 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  After Treatment

  This is an excellent article about life after treatment. I’ll put a link to it at the end in case anyone wants to save it but I thought I’d put the whole piece here. After the Treatment Finishes – Then What? Dr Peter Harvey Consulta...

  Beesuit 14 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Robot Surgery

  February 14 2020 A significant number of oropharyngeal tumours are in difficult to reach places and have conservatively been operated on by splitting the lower jaw and prizing the two parts apart (a bit of an oversimplification here, but humour me). ...

  Beesuit 14 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Acupuncture Update

  February 13 2020 Today I had another session of Acupuncture so I thought I would add some pictures. Excuse the ragged gardener’s nails! This type of Acupuncture is called Auricular Acupuncture and there is lots of data on how well it w...

  Beesuit 15 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  World Cancer Day

  February 8 2020 February 4th was World Cancer Day and Radiotherapy for Life were at an event at the House of Commons trying to raise the awareness of the importance of Radiotherapy in the successful treatment of cancer. RT is severely underfunded and...

  Beesuit 15 hours ago